Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Title: Duino Elegies

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 2025-03-04

Details: The first-ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West - reissued for the first time in 90 years

In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke's masterpiece, which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times, influencing countless poets, musicians and artists across the English-speaking world.

Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature's great masterpieces in fresh light.

EAN: 9781782277804

Package Dimensions: Height: 7.8 inches, Length: 5.08 inches, Weight: 0.80909650154 Pounds, Width: 0.23 inches